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outfit repeater, movie rewatcher, same post mutiple times reblogger

‘Marry me chicken’ ‘marry me beans’ we used to be a proper ‘better than sex’ country

Hell, I’ve been married, I’ll take the chicken all day long. Where’s the ‘edge me rigatoni?’ The ‘harder daddy pot roast?’ Perhaps even a ‘tease you with the tip until you’re crying and begging for it potatoes au gratin?’

Australian scifi: post-apocalyptic. Might be wandering the desert between roving bands of survivors. Might be fully automated gay space communism that only vaguely mentions The Ashen Earth. Might be all the adults dying mysteriously and kids having to rebuild their own society. But we are post the apocalypse and its shadow weighs very, very heavily on the story. What we lost is never coming back.

the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.

“i want shows with more women” deadloch “i want women who are complex and diverse” deadloch “i want women who are gross and weird” deadloch “i want women who are fucking gay” deadloch!!

"I want shows that will teach me totally new swear words" Deadloch!!!

in Disco Elysium I was expecting there to be some kind of “addiction mechanic” that would add a long-term downside to taking drugs, and was surprised not only by the absence of any such mechanic but also that the benefits of drugs greatly outweighed the cost. anyways fast forward to the late game and I was downing three bottles of pyrholidon and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before attempting any check, and it was only then I realized there was in fact an addiction mechanic

honestly, i think this is why i like the way the game handles substances so much. when i was looking up playthroughs of disco elysium i stumbled across one subreddit thread where someone asked “gameplay wise, is there any point to staying sober?” and just looked at it. like, yeah. yeah, exactly. we know that harry often does drugs specifically so that he can take on a superhuman caseload - as he puts it to kim, to be a “really good detective”. it was so chilling to see a player asking the same exact question that harry would probably be asking himself. without an external punishment mechanic, without being heavy handed about it, and in a way that (as OP pointed out) is so natural as to be almost unnoticeable, it manages to put the player exactly in his shoes as a recovering (or not recovering) addict. it’s a really well-designed mechanic

“Things are harder without this substance, so there’s no reason for me to abstain” being a purely Player-Driven interaction is a phenomenal addiction mechanic. Absolutely fucking gorgeous.

sometimes you have to take a long hard look in the mirror and say. okay buddy. you stayed up until 2am stressing about shit. you had a nightmare last night. you’re exhausted. don’t expect anything special from yourself today and don’t handle any dangerous goods. sparkle on